I helped you baby (I helped you baby)

You couldn't help yourself (You couldn't help yourself)

Now you on your feet (Now you on your feet)

You helping somebody else (Helping somebody else)

I'm a poor man, but a good man

Been treated wrong

She walked off and left me (Walked off and left me)

She didn't say a word (Didn't say one word)

For nothing she knows (Nothing that she knows)

Just something she heard (Something that she heard)

I'm a poor man, but a good man

Been treated wrong

If you don't believe it darling

Just wait around and see

Somebody's going to mistreat you

Just like you treated me, oh yes

I walked down to the station (Walked down to the station)

I looked up on the wall (Looked up on the wall)

My money was light (My money too light)

Didn't go nowhere at all (Couldn't go nowhere at all)

I'm a poor man, but a good man

Been treated wrong

If you don't believe it darling

Just wait, wait around and see

Somebody's going to mistreat you

Just like you mistreated me, oh yes

I walked down to the station (Walked down to the station)

I looked up on the wall (Looked up on the wall)

My money was light (My money was too light)

I didn't go nowhere at all (Couldn't go nowhere at all)

I'm a poor man, but a good man

Been treated wrong

I'm a poor man, but a good man

Ain't got no home

I'm a poor man, but a good man

No love of my own